Crunchy tofu stir-fry in soy-maple sauce

February 18, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: , , , , , , ,

mangold-tofu-stir-fry

I like it when my tofu has a crunch. In this dish, I fried the tofu separately first, so that the outsides would be crispy while the insides stayed soft. The maple sugar, which I picked up in the U.S., added a nice roundness to the mixture of wine and soy sauce.

I also happened to have an attractive bunch of colored organic mangold, which I bought on a whim a while ago because it was well, colored — the veins and stems of the different leaves are alternately yellow, orange and red. The vibrant colors were still visible after stir-frying, fortunately.

You don’t need to use colored mangold, though. In fact, I mixed mangold and spinach, and you could use either one or the other, or any other vegetable of your choosing.

colorful-mangoldFor two servings:

About 250 grams tofu
1 onion, chopped
Big handful of fresh mangold leaves
Big handful of fresh spinach leaves
4-6 crushed garlic cloves
1-2 T soy sauce
1-2 T mirin
1-2 t maple sugar
oil for frying

Heat a neutral-flavored oil in a large wok. Slice the tofu into sticks, and slide them down the side of the wok. Let the tofu begin to brown — don’t stir constantly, or the tofu won’t get crunchy. Shift the tofu once the bottoms are browned — the tofu sticks might start sticking to each other, so separate them — and turn to let the other sides brown.

Add the onion, chopped, and a minute later, the crushed garlic, as well as any thick stems from the mangold or spinach.

Once these vegetables are fragrant, add the chopped leaves, and then the mirin, soy and maple sugar (you can mix these final three ingredients together first, but I didn’t bother).

Stir-fry for another minute until the leaves have wilted, shut the flame and eat immediately, preferably with rice.


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  1. Delicious! What a great recipe! I love tofu and the splash of mirin and soysauce reminds me of my favorite Japanese restaurant! Mmm-ummm! Hope you can come over and share this yummy dish over at Foodista.com – the cooking encyclopedia everyone can edit. Would also love a link to this post from our site.(This will direct Foodista readers to your blog)Here’s how you can create inbound links from our site Check it out here. This is a great way for you to build blog traffic and connect with other food lovers! See you there! Thanks!

    Comment by Alisa@foodista — February 19, 2009 #

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